As for the seat cover, contact Gary Weese at 218-246-9394. Gary has quite an inventory of the older 71-73 parts. He has original, nos seat covers for your sled. Again, expect to pay good money for an original seat cover, but you difinitely have a very nice original sled there and it is well worth pr...

Contact Brandt at RuppParts@aol.com. Brandt has recently reproduced the drive cogs. It is a very common problem on the Rupps as the original plastic drive cogs age the plastic becomes brittle and breaks. It is quite a project to disassemble the drive axle and replace the cogs, so I would strongly su...

Great looking sled. Looking foreward to meeting you next year.

I guess I was thinking free-airs and fans. The Rotax certianly has the most pontential in the liquid classes. But you are correct. Usually the sleds that win at the drags are the ones that have had the most testing/tuning. Set-up is everything, regardless of brand.

The Staples Lake Shootout race was held a few weeks back in Comstock, WI. The results are listed in the previous post. To put an end to the debate who is fastest, add up the wins by each manufacturer/make of sled in the Stock and Modstock classes. Rupp and Merc had the best showing. The Rupps had 5-...

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Rupps arent fast? I beg to differ. My stock F/As will run with ANY free-air stockers in 500ft.

Hey guys, for anyone that was at the Staples Lake race I posted the official race results on the previous "nitrofa340" post. Thanks.

No more vintage drag races that I am aware of. You missed a great race at the Staples Lake Shootout. Lots of action. A hard running 78 SRX won Stock liquid. Winner's Circle Staples Lake Shootout February 25th, 2006 SS 0-300 CC Any Sled 1) Travis Boesch Burnsville, MN 1975 SkiDoo 245 RV 2) Matt Ander...

Sno-Jet, the '76-77 liquid SRXs are around 330lbs,...the '76 liquidTwister is 320lbs. The '75 GPX has an advertised weight of 367lbs.